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$xhtml = array(
	'<{title}>' => 'Little by little, my health improves',
	'takedown' => '2017-11-01',
	'<{body}>' => <<<END
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<section id="drudgery">
	<h2>Drudgery</h2>
	<p>
		My discussion post for the day:
	</p>
	<blockquote>
		<p>
			I hadn&apos;t even thought about the case of guessing answers on a quiz, but it&apos;s an example that applies to all of us.
			You won&apos;t pass the course if you guess on all the questions, but I think we all fail to remember at least some of the stuff.
			(I&apos;m not the only one without a perfect grade, am I?)
			Most of the time, it&apos;s my own failure to absorb everything thrown at me during the week (I have too much on my plate), but sometimes, there are other problems.
			For example, just last week, we had an odd question on a quiz.
			It asked for the mean of some numbers, which seems simple enough, but when adding all the numbers together and dividing by the number of numbers, I found the correct answer wasn&apos;t listed.
			Every once in a while, I run into flaws like that in the quizzes, where the student has no choice but to guess at what answer the quiz was probably looking for.
			Even quiz-writers make mistakes.
		</p>
		<p>
			You make a good point about some people having reviewed data beforehand, too.
			It may seem like they shouldn&apos;t have absolute certainty, but that&apos;s just because we don&apos;t realise that they&apos;re not actually taking a guess.
			We don&apos;t see their prior actions.
		</p>
	</blockquote>
	<blockquote>
		<p>
			It feels like the probability of a lot of expected outcomes in life are lower than they appear at first.
			Some things are practically a given, such as that I&apos;ll leave for work in an hour and a half, but a lot of smaller things don&apos;t tend to align without fine-detail planning, which is almost never worth it.
		</p>
	</blockquote>
	<blockquote>
		<p>
			Yeah, I chose that problem for its simplicity in design and difficulty to actually predict.
			Even with some of the most basic models, you can get a lot of variance in the results.
			Guessing dice rolls isn&apos;t going to be successful most of the time.
		</p>
	</blockquote>
	<blockquote>
		<p>
			Sadly, the people most likely to try to gamble for profit are those hurting for money most.
			There&apos;s a reason the state-run lottery is referred to as &quot;the poor tax&quot;!
			I think people get so desperate that they enter a state of delusion.
			They lose their sense of reason, and can&apos;t process the fact that they&apos;re almost guaranteed to lose.
			There&apos;s no reasoning with people suffering from extreme delusion, either.
		</p>
	</blockquote>
</section>
<section id="health">
	<h2>Health</h2>
	<p>
		My foot&apos;s been hurting since the glass bowl explosion.
		I thought I&apos;d gotten all the glass out of my foot and I just had a small wound that needed to heal, but it seems I still have a small shard in my sole, under a callus.
		I can&apos;t seem to get it out, and I&apos;ll probably need to find a pin and use that to dig it out.
		I don&apos;t think I can get it out with any sort of precision, and will end up digging up my skin a bit, but it&apos;ll finally be able to heal properly instead of encasing sharp debris.
	</p>
	<p>
		Other than that, I&apos;ve been feeling great over the past few days.
		Part of it&apos;s no doubt due to having less fat bogging my body down, but I think most of it&apos;s due to the confidence boost fat loss is giving me.
		I mean, I saw a major rise in how I felt as soon as I noticed that fat crease I mentioned before.
		It&apos;s a landmark point in my fat loss efforts, and shows I&apos;ve made visible progress.
		I still have quite a bit of fat I need to shed, but at this point, it no longer feels like whatever attempts I make will be in vain.
		I&apos;m getting through this.
		I&apos;m improving.
	</p>
</section>
END
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